Basic Biographical Details Name: | Thomas Duffy | Designation: | | Born: | 15 October 1892 | Died: | 1961 | Bio Notes: | Thomas Duffy was born on 15 October 1892 and was articled to Andrew Scobie & Son of Dunfermline in 1907. On completing his apprenticeship in 1913 he moved to Edinburgh where he joined Hippolyte Jean Blanc as junior assistant and worked on the designs for Edinburgh Ladies College. After only a year there he moved again, to take up a position as assistant to Bradshaw Gass & Hope of Bolton. He subsequently worked from 1920 to 1922 as assistant in the City Architect's Department in Sheffield where he was engaged on housing estate work, and from 1922 to 1924 as assistant to A Brocklehurst & Co in Manchester. In the latter year he was appointed Assistant County Architect in the Lancashire County Architect's Department, Preston. He was elected FRIBA on 9 July 1946, his proposers being Arthur Thomas Nicholson, G Noel Hill and Arthur John Hope, at which time he was still in the same office, having worked on schools, libraries, police stations, court houses, hospitals, welfare centres and sanatoria. He had also undertaken some competition work in collaboration with Charles Bulman Pearson & Son of Lancaster, winning the first premium for Ramsey Grammar School on the Isle of Man, and second premium for Southampton Girls' Secondary Shool.
Duffy would appear to have died in Newton in 1961, his death being registered between October and December of that year. | Private and Business AddressesThe following private or business addresses are associated with this : | | Address | Type | Date from | Date to | Notes | | Ben-arty/24, Greenway, Broughton, Preston, Lancashire, England | Private | 1946 * | After 1951 | |
* earliest date known from documented sources.
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Buildings and DesignsThis was involved with the following buildings or structures from the date specified (click on an item to view details): | | Date started | Building name | Town, district or village | Island | City or county | Country | Notes | | 1913 | Edinburgh Ladies College | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | As junior assistant to Hippolyte Jean Blanc |
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this : | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | RIBA | 1950 | The RIBA Kalendar 1950-1951 | | London: Royal Institute of British Architects | |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this : | | Source | Archive Name | Source Catalogue No. | Notes | | England and Wales | Births, marriages and deaths | | | | RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum | RIBA Nomination Papers | | F no4190 (box 33) |
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